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Projects

The research program of the RTG comprises three main areas (A-C) which are embraced by project D. Project D attempts to provide the theoretical framework of the RTG. The entire research program (in German) can be found here.

Project Title PI and Co-PI
Doctoral  Candidates and Postdocs
A1 The neurobiology of the vowel space Prof. Dr. Scharinger
Prof. Dr. Cysouw
Paula Rinke
A2 Dynamics and stability in regional variation-spectra of German Prof. Dr. Herrgen
Prof. Dr. Lameli
Prof. Dr. Scharinger
Dominik Thiele
A3 Linguistic representations and standard-oriented speech Prof. Dr. Lameli
Prof. Dr. Herrgen
Dr. Hahn
Nadja Spina
A4 Dynamics of linguistic representations in morphology Prof. Dr. Lameli
Prof. Dr. Scharinger
Prof. Dr. Spieß
Denise Jung
B1 Language representations in prosodic processing Prof. Dr. Domahs
Prof. Dr. Kauschke
Prof. Dr. Scharinger
Jonas Gerards
B2 Acquisition of the middle-Franconian tone accent Prof. Dr. Werth
Dr. Ganswindt
Prof. Dr. Schmidt
Simone Nopens
B3 Modifying representations by manipulations of the learning environment Prof. Dr. Kauschke
Prof. Dr. Cysouw
Prof. Dr. Dohmas
Alexia Despina Leonidou
C1 Dynamics and stability of regiolect boundaries Prof. Dr. Ganswindt
Prof. Dr. Schmidt
Milena Gropp
C2 Winning and losing forms of morpho-syntactic language change Prof. Dr. Cysouw
Prof. Dr. Fischer
Prof. Dr. Fleischer
Maria Luisa Krapp
C3 Variation and change of morpho-syntactic reference Prof. Dr. Fleischer
Prof. Dr. Dohmas
Prof. Dr. Fischer
Christin Schütze
C4 Polysemy and imagery as challenge for  mental representations Prof. Dr. Spieß
Prof. Dr. Kauschke
Prof. Dr. Werth
Maike Park
D Levels of descriptions and interactions of linguistic representations Prof. Dr. Kasper Dr. Toke Hoffmeister

Former Projects

Project Title PI and Co-PI Doctoral  Candidates and Postdocs
B1 Dynamics of representations in phonological acquisition Prof. Dr. Domahs
Prof. Dr. Kauschke
Prof. Dr. Scharinger
Francie Höhler